From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-06-23T19:03:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Iterate over specific keys in a hash

Update: if you are interested at the values for particular keys, then 
you can also do

>> cars = { "car0" => "bmw", "car1" => "seat", "car3" => "mercedes", "car4" =>
"renault"}
>> cars.values_at("car0","car3").each { |c| puts c }
bmw
mercedes
=> ["bmw", "mercedes"]

If you really want to rely on the insertion order, which I'd strongly 
recommend against even under ruby 1.9, there's a brute-force way:

cars.each_value.with_index do |c,i|
  next unless [0,3].include?(i)
  puts c
end

Note that this will give you bmw and renault, because it ignores the 
keys completely.
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